Re: [cobalt-users] Primary/Secondary DNS on the same RaQ

["Fathi Said" <fathi@xxxxxx>]

Jay,

That's the way we do it, and we have several, we call them virtual
nameservers on the same machine.

>  a) Assign a different IP to each of ns1 and ns2 by creating
>     a single "A" and "PTR" record for each;

Yes, that's good.

>  b) Enter these numbers into the Primary/Secondar DNS Network
>     settings of the control panel;

We don't do this, as we have ns1/2.reseller1.com and ns1/2.reseller2.com and
so on on the same server.
Also, our solution works well, so I don't think it is necessary. As primary
DNS we have entered the IP address of the server itself, and secondary is
the IP address of another server.

>  c) Create new DNS records as per the norm, pointing to ns1;

I don't know what you mean here. If we want to add a new domain, we tell the
clients to use ns1/2.reseller.com as their nameservers, where
ns1/2.reseller.com are virtual sites on our server. This way (for some
reason I don't know) the virtual sites work very well as "virtual name
servers" and you can also modify the content of http://ns1/2.reseller.com
which is quite helpful, sometimes.

> At this point it's unclear how I setup and configure ns2, ie: do I
> add a Secondary Nameserver (NS) Record or a Secondary Nameservice
> for each domain, and what is the proper way to configure a secondary
> DNS record?

No, we don't setup NS records for any domain.

Example how we setup website:

First, we create virtual site www.client.com

Then add to DNS:
(A) client.com --> IP
(A) www.client.com --> IP
(A) mail.client.com --> IP
(MX) client.com --> mail.client.com
(CNAME) ftp.client.com --> www.client.com

The websites for fine.

If you want to use our solution, please don't forget to setup the
nameservers as virtual sites as well (this means you will need to create two
virtual site ns1.reseller.com and ns2.reseller.com). This way it is also
possible to host several resellers (with their virtual nameservers) on one
server.

Hope this helps.

Fathi